The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-05-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS

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and among the articles stolen were four.
teen pairs of pants, suit of clothes, re
volver, eight pocket knives, nine silk hand
kerchiefs, six blue shirts and four pairs of
shoes.
OK Sunday afternoon, April 25, while his
wife was at church attending to the chris
tening OF her youngest child, Henry Stew
ems, a section hand on the Leavenworth,
| Topeka G. Southwestern railroad, living
| near Boiling station, committed brutal as
sault on Mary Schultz, thirteen-year-old
orphan nurse in his family. He then fed.
| On Sunday, April "a, Henry Nagle, a
painter, was suffocated in vat at Herder's
| vinegar factory, Topeka. Mr.. Herder had
| a very large vinegar vat which he desired
painted with patent paint he had recently
purchased in the East, and which was very
highly recommended by vinegar manutac-
turers. He gave Nagle the job Of painting
the vat, but told him on Sunday morning
not to do any painting On that day. Nagle,
| however, went on with the work on the IN
side OF the tank and was standing on a lad
der. The fumes from the paint overcame
him and he fell to the bottom. Several
| parties tried to save him but could not do
so owing to the suffocating fumes of the
paint and vinegar. When finally pulled
| H.,
| he was dead.
| COLORADO has not quarantined against
| Kansas cattle, as reported.
ToPEKA's new mayor has declared war
| on gambling houses and dives.
| JAMES ANDERSON, a convict at the State
| penitentiary, suicided in the coal mine the
other morning, cutting his throat with a
common table knife, which was used by the
| convict miners to cut the wicking for their
| pit lamps. Anderson was one of a number
| of tramps who attempted to burn the Lyon
| County Jail at Emporia, about year ago.
| He was convicted of arson and sentenced to
| ten years Imprisonment, entering the in
stitution just year ago. on April /. He
| was twenty-four years of age and first
class prisoner, never giving his keepers
| any trouble. He had never written or re-
| ceived any letters since his Incarceration.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansans on the 25th: Josephine Davis, OF
Coffee Valley; Charles G. Paris, of Bloom
ington; John E. Buckham, of Parsons !;
Webster 7. Roth, of Dodge City: Adam
| Graf. of TonganoXie; John S. Patterson,
of Mound Valley; William c. Beall. of Esk-
ridge: John Palmen, of Sabetha; Morris S.
Hutchins, of Americus; George W. Phil
lips, of Lebo; John X. Townsend, of How
ard; George Wolverton, of Cherryvale; a;
George W. Thomas, of Clifton; William H.
Brown, of South Haven; William Vincent,
of Newton; Jonathan n. Galloway, of Mil
tonvale; Daniel C. Carpenter, of McPher-
son. and John B. Fowler, of Eureka.
Two new banks have recently been char
tered by the Secretary OF State, both in new
counties, being the Bankof Seward County,
at Springfield, capital so, 200, and the Kan
sas State Bank, of Scott, Scott County,
capital $4,000
FRANK FRANEK, who was found guilty by
jury in the district court at Leavenworth
of violating the Prohibitory law, is missing,
and it is believed he has departed from the
State, leaving his bondsmen the principle
mourners.
A PoST-oFFICE has been established at
Langley, Ellsworth County, with Joseph
Byrne as postmaster, while the post-offices
at Carthage, Meade County, and Vallonia,
Decatur County, have been discontinued.
OK the 9th, the sixty-ffth anniversary
of the birth of General Grant, memorial
services were held at Topeka. At the San
Francisco encampment the Grand Army of
the Republic endorsed the purpose of erect
ing, at Washington, monument to Grant,
and it was decided to hold meetings of this
kind to solicit subscriptions for the pur-
pose. Subscriptions to the amount Of over
500 were received during the meeting
AN important opinion has been rendered
by the Supreme Court in relation TO the en-
cumbering of homestead. 1t appears that
a man had given a mortgage upon his home
stead, the wife not signing the document.
Several days later the mortgages, becom-
ing alarmed because of the uncertainty of
their security, went to the wife and Sc
cured separate acknowledgement, prop
erly certified to before notary pu bic. The
lower court held that the mortgage was
valid and was a good lien upon the home
stead. The Supreme Court reverses this
decision, and holds that the mortgage was
invalid and worthless, and that the wife's
signature was not properly obtained. Fur
ther, that the signatures of both husband
aud wife must be obtained at the same
time in each others presence, otherwise
the constitutional provision relating to
homesteads is violated.
Hon. A. l.. WILLIAMS has been appointed
general attorney of the Union Pacific rail-
road to succeed Judge Usher, VINO is re-
tired from actual service and retained as
counsel.
NEARLY two hundred dentists from all
parts of the State attended the seventeenth
annual meeting of the State Dental Associ-
alton recently held at Topeka
TOPEKA Odd Fellows laid the corner stone
of the new temple of Shawnee Lodge on the
Goth with imposing ceremonies.
A BAD wreck of a freight train was caused
at Peabody the other night by train being
uncoupled as it ran down grade into the
city. The engineer saw danger signal
and brought his engine to a stop, and the
rear portion telescoped into the 'front.' |
wrecking some twenty cars. No one was |
hurt.
DURING the year 1886 the newspapers of |
Kansas increased eighty-nine in number, |
eight of them being dailies. The increase |
was larger than that of any other State in |
the Union.
F. II. Bolt was recently found dead sit |
ting in bis chair, at his house in Sherman |
County He had been shot by an unknown |
assassin, vino it was supposed fired through |
the window.
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished. HeIsertoa, Barton County, Dan
iel E. Fryberger, postmaster; Overbrook,
Usage County, Jasper B. Fairchild, post
master; Pickwick, Greeley County, Sophia
A. Winter, postmaster; Woodland, Bour-
bon County, Eldad Parsons, postmaster.
Name changed, Altory, Decatur County, to
Ramona; Bitlertown, Lyon County, to Olpe;
Hart's Mills, Lyon County, to Hewins; Mule
Creek. Ellsworth County, to Crawford, Rice
County. Discontinued, Bonnie Doom, Ness
County; Deep Hole, Clark County; Eugene,
Ford County; Lima, Elk County.
PEACH crop prospects good.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
the location of large glass works at Fort
Scott to utilize the natural gas wells.